Have you ever considered the power of a digital nudge to enhance learning? While you likely receive your own amount of this digital alerts and notifications each day, several universities are exploring the power of the digital nudge to enhance student success.
Surprisingly, there is a carefully crafted art & science to doing the digital nudge well in education. Too many, too irrelevant, or too many and they work against you. They are a double-edged sword that can be beneficial or just another barrage of information into the realm of stimulus overload.
Experts say that it’s no small feat to use the data to figure out where nudges are needed and if they work. And if institutions don’t have the capacity to monitor that data, they should forgo nudges until they can. However, if you have the resources, the desire, and the continued focus to explore this terrain and “get it right,” the digital nudge can be a beneficial tool to enhance student learning.
To learn more on the digital nudge in higher education, visit “Giving a nudge: How digital alerts can keep students on track.”
